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Unpacks the mysteries of COVID-19''s origins to impart important lessons for future outbreaks.Unpacking the mysteries of COVID-19''s origins to impart important lessons for future outbreaks.In this timely book, leading public health expert Laura H. Kahn uses the comprehensive One Health approach to investigate the COVID-19 pandemic. The concept of One Health recognizes the interconnected links among the health of humans, animals, plants, and the environment. By comparing the history, science, and clinical presentations of three different coronavirusesSARS-CoV-1, MERS, and SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)Kahn uncovers insights with important repercussions for how to prepare for and avoid future pandemics. The One Health approach is a useful framework for examining the outbreak of COVID-19. Understanding the origins of this zoonotic disease requires examining the environmental and molecular biological factors that allowed the virus to spread to humans. Kahn inv

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It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by his own experiences working as a physician in a bush hospital in Zaire, Jacques Pépin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in central Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and traces its subsequent development into the most dramatic and destructive epidemic of modern times. He shows how the disease was first transmitted from chimpanzees to man and then how military campaigns, urbanisation, prostitution and large-scale colonial medical interventions intended to eradicate tropical diseases combined to disastrous effect to fuel the spread of the virus from its origins in Léopoldville to the rest of Africa, the Caribbean and ultimately worldwide. This is an essential perspective on HIV/AIDS and on the lessons that must be learned as the world faces another pandemic.

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The first book in the heart-stopping The Darkest Minds trilogy, also now a major movie, from the bestselling author of Lore. Ruby is sixteen. She is dangerous. And she is alive. For now.A mysterious disease has killed most of America's children. Ruby might have survived, but she and the others have emerged with something far worse than a virus: frightening abilities they cannot control. Pressured by the government, Ruby's parents sent her to Thurmond, a brutal state 'rehabilitation camp', where she has learned to fear and suppress her new power. But what if mastering it is a whole generation's only chance for survival?'A riveting emotional read that kept me on the edge.' - Melissa Marr, author of Wicked LovelyAlexandra Bracken is the New York Times bestselling author of Passenger, Wayfarer and The Darkest Minds series. Visit her online at www.alexandrabracken.com and on Twitter @alexbracken.

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Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022!Make the most effective diagnostic and therapeutic decisions quickly and efficiently!Find answers fast with The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult Premium, 8th Edition – your go-to resource for the effective medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. Using the proven 5-Minute format, it provides rapid access to information on diagnosis, treatment, medications, follow-up, and associated factors for more than 500 diseases and conditions. The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult is designed to help you make quick, accurate decisions every day … helping you save time and offer every patient the best possible care. Get quick access to all-new topics , including Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, Vaccine Refusal, Zika Virus, Chikungunya Virus, Transgender Youth, and Follow-up of NICU Graduates. Reorganized and updated appendix includes unique identifiers for dozens of genetic conditions, associated inheritance patterns, specific gene(s) involved, mechanism of a disease, descriptions of the associated clinical findings, and a Glossary of Genetic Syndromes important for the care of children. Find the answers you need quickly thanks to an intuitive, at-a-glance format, with concise, bulleted text; ICD-10 codes; FAQs; and much more. Consult “The 5-Minute Educator” appendix for instruction of trainees at all levels. Access valuable clinical guidance in the book as well as 24/7 online access for three years! Written by experts in the field of pediatrics and associated subspecialties and published by the leader in medical content, The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult Premium: 3-Year Enhanced Online Access + Print, 8th Edition includes 3-year access to 5MinuteConsult.com.5MinuteConsult.com is a quicker, more valuable, evidence-based, online workflow tool easily integrated at the point-of-care. 5MinuteConsult.com provides online-exclusive content, including: Additional 1,500+ diseases and conditions Semantic search – for targeted results from reliable resources including 5-Minute Clinical Consult Online-only treatment and diagnostic algorithms More than 3,500 patient handouts in Spanish and English Over 200 step-by-step procedure and physical therapy videos to enhance procedural skills The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult Premium, 8th Edition provides the luxury of a traditional print product and delivers quick access to the continually updated online content – an ideal resource when you’re treating patients.

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The National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) is the result of many years in the planning, and it finally officially opened its doors in September 2019, just months before the entire world was tested by the COVID-19 pandemic. This book is the work of many people who represent an even larger pool of people from NCID, Singapore and the rest of the world in trying to understand and contain the SARS- CoV-2 virus. There are chapters on science, the public health response both locally and globally, as well as personal reflections from NCID and Tan Tock Seng Hospital staff and staff from other public healthcare institutions who were deployed to NCID which bring home the human impact of the pandemic. We are very grateful to all the authors for taking the time to put together their thoughtful chapters as well as the senior academics and public health leaders who have provided us with generous comments on the manuscript. We hope that the readers of the book will gain a better insight into the response to the virus from so many different perspectives. Although the pandemic has evolved far beyond the pages of this book globally, the lessons learned from the early days are still relevant. We hope that the chapters will be helpful as we review our experience of this pandemic and face the next emerging infectious disease in the years to come.This book provides a comprehensive look at many different aspects of response in Singapore to the pandemic in the crucial first several months, including clinical, laboratory, epidemiology, research, community engagement and the unprecedented challenge of outbreak involving migrant workers in dormitory settings. On a personal note, it has first-hand accounts of staff at the NCID who were at the forefront of battling COVID-19 in Singapore. It also gives a global perspective of the pandemic, together with insights into the unique Singapore experience of managing the pandemic. The Singapore response to the pandemic has been something which the global community has been very interested in and this book is the first to comprehensively describe that response from a number of different angles which will be useful to scientists, clinicians, public health professionals and policy makers.

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A los 6 meses de vida un virus me causó una parálisis cerebral. Los médicos dijeron que me quedaría como un vegetal. Tengo un 76% de discapacidad y hablo en lenguaje de signos. En mi vida el "no puedes" ha sido una frase constante, pero he luchado mucho, tengo un trabajo que me gusta, una familia, amigos y una novia maravillosa. Me gustaría explicarle a la gente en que sí se puede.Alex es un luchador.A lo largo de su vida se ha encontrado con muchas barreras y las ha superado con mucho esfuerzo. Ha realizado triatlones y una aquatlón, la Orbea Monegros, varias carreras de 5 y 10km, la Pilgrim Race y dos Titan Desert.Ha estudiado, trabaja, conduce su coche y vive con su novia. Su lema es que los limites se los pone uno mismo, siendo cada uno dueño de su destino y de sus posibilidades.

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Cuida de tu sistema inmunitario y envejecerás mejorNuestro cuerpo alberga alrededor de cuarenta billones de células, un sistema biológico perfectamente organizado para asegurar la continuidad de la especie mediante una compleja disposición de defensas, contraataques y estrategias biológicas. Sí, se trata del sistema inmunitario.Además de protegernos de bacterias, hongos, parásitos y virus, este sistema se enfrenta a su propio envejecimiento conocido con el término ?inmunosenescencia?. La buena noticia es que puedes fortalecer tu sistema inmunitario: Juan Ramón Lucas te presenta el Inmunofitness, un estilo de vida que marca un antes y un después en el cuidado del sistema inmune y mejora de la calidad de vida. Sus pilares son la vacunación, la alimentación saludable, el ejercicio y una mente sana, es decir, un sueño reparador, contacto con entornos verdes y exposición al sol en condiciones saludables.Escrito con sencillez, simpatía y buen humor, este libro te enseña a mej

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Orbus continues the adventure of Captain Orbus in Neal Asher's high-octane, science fiction Spatterjay series.A cold war is turning white hot.Old Captain Orbus commandeered a ship to flee Spatterjay, desperate to escape the violent planet. Orbus’s alien enemy, the Prador Vrell, is also moving on. The Spatterjay virus mutated him into something even more dangerous. And he’s hunting the Prador King himself – who sought to kill him, to bury the secret of their similar transformations.Orbus and Vrell clash in the Graveyard, a lawless zone where the Prador have seized a key space station. Official action by humanity or Prador would end peace, as a centuries-long cold war simmers. So Earth commands Orbus to destroy the station, even as the King recruits a monster to exterminate Vrell. But their actions will awaken an intelligence that annihilated civilizations, as it stirs after five million years . . .

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A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year * A NCSS 2023 Notable Social Studies Trade BookWhat was the pandemic of the century like at the start? This swift, gripping novel captures not only the uncertainty and panic when COVID first emerged in Wuhan, but also how a community banded together. Weaving in the tastes and sounds of the historic city, Wuhan’s comforting and distinctive cuisine comes to life as the reader follows 13-year-old Mei who, through her love for cooking, makes a difference in her community. Written by an award-winning author originally from Wuhan. Grieving the death of her mother and an outcast at school, thirteen-year-old Mei finds solace in cooking and computer games. When her friend’s grandmother falls ill, Mei seeks out her father, a doctor, for help, and discovers the hospital is overcrowded. As the virus spreads, Mei finds her

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The title sequence of Making the Beds for the Dead charts the journey of a virus in 'the plague year'. Come from outer space, it travels - on a fox's paw, the beak of a kite and a crow and a buzzard - into the very heart of our lives. The poet includes personal, verses and stories from farmers in her family and neighbourhood. The open structure allows the Gillian Clarke to include her seven rock poems, written for the National Botanic Garden of Wales; her poems based in archaeology; and her poems about war, and urban violence. There is an instinctive and a deliberate unity of theme and idiom in this book. The poet remains true to her landscapes and her nation. The sequence 'The Physicians of Myddfai', nine sonnets for Aberglasne, and much else is included in this characteristically generous and engaging volume by Wales' best-loved poet.

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Cada día de nuestra vida, nuestro sistema inmunitario se mantiene alerta defendiéndonos de multitud de agentes con potencial para causarnos enfermedad: parásitos, bacterias, virus, células cancerosas, etc. El trabajo es constante. Esta lucha permanente entre nuestras células de defensa y los múltiples agentes patogénicos suele pasarnos desapercibida hasta que un fallo en el sistema defensivo nos recuerda que somos vulnerables y que nuestro sistema inmunitario es imperfecto. Tras millones de años de evolución, el sistema inmunitario humano se ha dotado de moléculas, células, tejidos y órganos capaces de orquestar respuestas sumamente complejas y dirigidas frente a las más variopintas amenazas. Cómo lo hace? Qué elementos actúan y dónde están? De qué manera puede fallar? Por qué se producen las enfermedades autoinmunitarias, las alergias e incluso el cáncer? Y las inmunodeficiencias? Cómo afectan el sexo, la edad, el embarazo o el microbioma? Este libro pretende adentrarse en el mundo de

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'A powerfully evociative story of the resilience and triumph of the human spirit' Taylor Jenkins ReidDiana O'Toole's life is going perfectly to plan. At twenty-nine, she's up for promotion to her dream job as an art specialist at Sotheby's and she's about to fly to the Galápagos where she's convinced her surgeon boyfriend, Finn, is going to propose. But then the virus hits New York City and Finn breaks the news: the hospital needs him, he has to stay. But you should still go, he insists. And reluctantly, she agrees. Once she's in the Galápagos, the world shuts down around her, leaving Diana stranded - albeit in paradise. Completely isolated, with only intermittent news from the outside world, Diana finds herself examining everything that has brought her to this point and wondering if there's a better way to live. But not everything is as it seems . . .

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A new technology has emerged, promising a perfect society, and resisters are not long for this world . . . Ahead, not too many years from now, everyone has been linked to a network of government-mandated brain implants. The Interface has become a way of life, connecting all people to limitless information, nonstop personal messaging, and instantaneous news flashes. Gone are the days of cell phones and laptops—even loneliness itself is obsolete. But when the genius behind the Interface turns against his own creation and threatens to unleash a deadly electronic brain virus on the public, the fate of the world falls on NYPD Captain Yara Avril, who must stop this sinister, ever-escalating plot before it’s too late. A thrilling nod to a future waiting just around the corner, Interface is a remarkably prescient exploration of the potential links between boundless connection and cataclysmic disaster in digital society.

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El legendario Frederick Forsyth, el auténtico maestro del suspense internacional según Los Angeles Times, nos sorprende con un nuevo y oportuno thriller.La mayoría de las armas hacen lo que les pides.La mayoría de las armas son controlables.Y si el arma más peligrosa del mundo no fuera un misil inteligente, un submarino sigiloso o un virus informático? Y si, en realidad, se tratara de un chico de diecisiete años con una mente prodigiosa, capaz de sortear los sistemas de seguridad más sofisticados y de manipular cualquier arma y volverla en contra de los más poderosos? Qué no estaría dispuesta a hacer cualquier agencia de inteligencia para tenerlo de su lado?Hay que encontrarlo y capturarlo. O protegerlo y salvarlo. Pase lo que pase, él es capaz de decantar la balanza del poder mundial y no debe caer en las manos equivocadas, porque lo que podría ocurrir a continuación es impensable... Y lo mejor de todo es que s

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El nostre cos alberga uns 40 bilions de microorganismes, una collecció d?éssers microscòpics integrada sobretot per bacteris, però també per virus, fongs i arqueus, única per a cadascun de nosaltres com una empremta dactilar. La gran majoria d?aquesta microbiota resideix al còlon i duu a terme funcions crucials per a la supervivència humana, des de digerir aliments i extreure vitamines i energia, fins a entrenar el nostre sistema immunitari.En els darrers 20 anys, la ciència ha anat descobrint com, quan aquesta comunitat microbiana és equilibrada, estable i diversa, contribueix a mantenir la salut global de l?organisme, i per això l?alimentació té un paper fonamental. Però què hem de menjar per alimentar bé aquests bacteris? Com influeix el que ingerim sobre aquesta comunitat de microorganismes i aquests, alhora, sobre el nostre benestar?Aquest no és un llibre de superaliments, ni de curacions o dietes miraculoses, ni de plans per detoxificar l?intestí, sinó un sòlid i contrastat

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Walter Isaacson vuelve a fascinarnos, esta vezcon la historia de Jennifer Doudna, Premio Nobel de Química 2020, y el avance científico más importante del último siglo.Hay una revolución en marcha, una tecnología prodigiosa que nos va a permitir curar enfermedades, derrotar virus y tener hijos más sanos. A su cabeza está la reciente premio Nobel Jennifer Doudna y sus colegas, protagonistas del nuevo libro de Walter Isaacson. Aunque su profesor de instituto le advirtió que las niñas no podían ser científicas, su búsqueda apasionada de los mecanismos ocultos de la vida y su voluntad por convertir descubrimientos en inventos llevaron a Jennifer Doudna a participar en el avance más importante en el ámbito de la biología desde el descubrimiento de la doble hélice del ADN. Con su equipo, transformó una curiosidad de la naturaleza en una herramienta que cambiará el rumbo del ser humano. El CRISPR, una técnicafácil de usar que permite modificar el ADN, lo que abre un

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Rocío Vidal, la gata de Schrödinger, hace un homenaje a la ciencia a través de sus grandes descubrimientos.Quién fue el primero en descubrir las células? Y la química que logró desentrañar la estructura del ADN? Sabías que Napoleón Bonaparte ayudó a promover la vacunación? O por qué fue tan importante lograr aislar la partícula infecciosa de un virus?El conocimiento científico se hace cada vez más necesario para comprender el mundo en que vivimos, pero son muy pocos los que son capaces de enseñárnoslo con rigor, amenidad y sencillez, como lo hace Rocío Vidal. Conocida como La Gata de Schrödinger y una de las divulgadoras más conocidas en nuestro país, la autora nos lleva en este libro a un viaje fascinante -como si fuésemos espectadores privilegiados en vivo y en directo- a través de los grandes descubrimientos científicos de todos los tiempos.Lleno de anécdotas increíbles, información contrastada y datos asombrosos, Eureka! es el homenaje a la ciencia que todos

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La peste escarlataColección Milano ? NovelaJack London consiguió un enorme éxito como escritor al hacer girar sus narraciones en torno a personajes situados al límite de su supervivencia y hechos que contenían gran dramatismo vital; combinó en sus múltiples relatos y novelas el género de aventuras con un potente realismo.Publicada en 1912, la originalidad de La peste escarlata reside en que con ella inauguró Jack London el género del relato postapocalíptico. La historia nos sitúa en el año 2073, sesenta años después de que la humanidad haya sido prácticamente aniquilada por un virus letal. El anciano James, único superviviente actual de la catástrofe, se obstina en compartirles sus conocimientos a sus tres nietos ?Edwin, Cara de Liebre y Hu-Hu?, salvaje germen de una futura civilización, y para ello ha de relatarles cómo la enfermedad arrasó con todo lo que conocía. De una asombrosa clarividencia, no exenta de los tintes dramáticos que caracterizan a la escritura de su autor,

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Un cuento perfecto para conocer los bichitos que tenemos en la tripa y entender qué nos pasa cuando nos duele.Elías es un niño que se tira unos pedos enormes, es conocido en todo su barrio como Superpedorro. Él lo considera un superpoder. Sin embargo, un día algo va mal: le duele la tripa, sus pedos huelen peor que nunca y empieza a hacer cacas líquidas. El médico le diagnosticará una gastroenteritis y le contará cómo sus bichitos intestinales están batallando contra este virus. Luego, le dará consejos sobre cómo vencerlo para poder volver a su vida normal. Eso sí, los pedos, por supuesto, mejor fuera que dentro!Es un libro ideal para que los más pequeños? Entiendan qué pasa dentro de sus barrigas cuando se les hincha, cuando tienen diarrea o cuando empiezan a tirarse pedos que huelen mal. No les dé vergüenza pedir ayuda cuando tienen muchos gases o dolor en la tripa. Se sientan identificado

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Número 134 de la colección Magos del humor.Un extraño virus de gripe está afectando a la T.I.A. y Mortadelo y Filemón tendrán que investigar sobre ello.Una virulenta gripe está afectando a varios miembros de la T.I.A., por lo que Mortadelo y Filemón deberán averiguar cuál es el foco de infección.Tras investigar en la T.I.A., un hospital, unos grandes almacenes y un restaurante finalmente descubren que el culpable es el kamikaze Regúlez que quiere vender la cura de la gripe U para tener dinero con el que pagarse la cirugía estética.___________________Sobre la colección:La colección Magos del Humor nació en la editorial Bruguera en el año 1984 recuperando títulos que ya habían sido publicados en su antecesora Ases del Humor (1969). Debido al cierre de Bruguera en 1986, en esta etapa solo llegaron a ver la luz los primeros 12 volúmenes de la serie, pero en 1987 Ediciones B retomó la publicación de la colección desde su primer nú

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Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the world. Follow author Robert Whiting (The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, You Gotta Have Wa, Tokyo Underworld) as he watches Tokyo transform during the 1964 Olympics, rubs shoulders with the Yakuza and comes face to face with the city’s dark underbelly, interviews Japan’s baseball elite after publishing his first best-selling book on the subject, and learns how politics and sports collide to produce a cultural landscape unlike any other, even as a new Olympics is postponed and the COVID virus ravages the nation. A colorful social history of what Anthony Bourdain dubbed, “the greatest city in the world,” Tokyo Junkie is a revealing account by an accomplished journalist who witnessed it all firsthand and, in the process, had his own dramatic personal transformation.

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A real-life thriller about a nation in crisis, and the controversial decisions its leaders made during the Covid-19 pandemic. First, the government instituted no restrictions. Then, it didn’t order the wearing of face masks. While the rest of the world looked on with incredulity, condemnation, admiration, and even envy, a small country in Northern Europe stood alone. As Covid-19 spread across the globe rapidly, the world shut down. But Sweden remained open. The Swedish Covid-19 strategy was alternately lauded and held up as a cautionary tale by international governments and journalists alike — with all eyes on what has been dubbed ‘The Swedish Experiment’. But what made Sweden take such a different path? In The Herd, journalist Johan Anderberg narrates the improbable story of a small nation that took a startlingly different approach to fighting the virus, guiding the reader through the history of epidemiology and the ticking-clock decisions that pandemic decision-makers were faced with on a daily basis.

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Barbara Czarniawska is a distinguished scholar and author in the field of organization. Drawing on her extensive knowledge she has gathered together other leading experts to apply organization theory to yet another relevant field of practice - risk management.There are no prescriptions for organizing in the face of risk and threat, but the accumulating experience shows that a well-rehearsed improvisation brings much better results than planning and construction of formal organizations. This timely book contains cases of risk and threat where the former strategy succeeds and the latter fails. The wealth of cases presented includes the Marburg virus outbreak in Angola, bird flu, health insurance after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and the Tjorn bridge catastrophe in Sweden.Graduate and postgraduate students in business and management schools, as well as academics teaching courses in risk management across disciplines should not be without this book. Risk management specialists will also find this book invaluable.

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In the face of the COVID-19 virus, organizations large and small are shuttering offices and factories, requiring as much work as possible be done from peoples’ homes. The book draws on the insights of the author's earlier book, Lessons from Mars, providing a set of the powerful tools and exercises developed within the Mars Corporation to create high performance teams. These tools have been adapted for teams suddenly forced to work apart, in many cases for the first time. These simple secrets and tested techniques have been used by thousands of teams who know that creating a foundation of team identity and shared meaning makes them resilient, even in a time of crisis. The "Resilience Series" is the result of an intensive, collaborative effort of our authors in response to the 2020 coronavirus epidemic. Each volume offers expert advice for developing the practical, emotional and spiritual skills that you can master to become more resilient in a time of crisis.

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Written by three experts with extensive experience helping people with HIV/AIDS, this trusted resource is the complete guide to better physical and emotional health for women living with HIV or AIDS. It covers the full range of health and emotional issues faced by people with HIV while also addressing topics of special interest to women, including gynecologic disorders, reproductive choices, contraception, and pregnancy. The world of HIV/AIDS diagnosis and therapy is changing dramatically. At-home testing is now available, people exposed to the virus may be able to get immediate treatment, and the number of dominant classes of HIV treatment has increased from four to six. This new edition of "A Woman's Guide to Living with HIV Infection" includes the latest information on diagnosis and treatments as well as recent findings about pregnancy and HIV, starting treatments when you have HIV-related complications, liver health and hepatitis, and sexual health.

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Written by three experts with extensive experience helping people with HIV/AIDS, this trusted resource is the complete guide to better physical and emotional health for women living with HIV or AIDS. It covers the full range of health and emotional issues faced by people with HIV while also addressing topics of special interest to women, including gynecologic disorders, reproductive choices, contraception, and pregnancy. The world of HIV/AIDS diagnosis and therapy is changing dramatically. At-home testing is now available, people exposed to the virus may be able to get immediate treatment, and the number of dominant classes of HIV treatment has increased from four to six. This new edition of "A Woman's Guide to Living with HIV Infection" includes the latest information on diagnosis and treatments as well as recent findings about pregnancy and HIV, starting treatments when you have HIV-related complications, liver health and hepatitis, and sexual health.

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A timely collection of scientific & clinical information on Hepatitis C. A bound compilation of issues 1 and 2 of Seminars in Liver Disease, 2000. A hardbound compendium of Volume 20, Numbers 1 and 2 of the journal, Seminars in Liver Disease, this new volume brings together an international group of distinguished authors to present 16 current, incisive reviews and analyses of both the basic science and clinical aspects of HCV. The volume examines the broadest spectrum of HCV virology, pathology, and disease while focusing on the following key issues: HCV's impact on human populations The manifestations of the virus & its distribution throughout the body HCV molecular virology with an emphasis on its clinical implications Identification of pharmaceutical targets and vaccine components and an analysis of genotypes and interferon sensitivity In addition, the volume examines the clinical consequences of HCV infection, including immune response to HCV, B-cell abnormalities, diagnostic tests, kinetic studies, interferon-ribavirin combination therapy, liver transplantation, and vaccine development.

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Genetics and Evolution of Infectious Diseases, Second Edition, discusses the constantly evolving field of infectious diseases and their continued impact on the health of populations, especially in resource-limited areas of the world. Students in public health, biomedical professionals, clinicians, public health practitioners, and decisions-makers will find valuable information in this book that is relevant to the control and prevention of neglected and emerging worldwide diseases that are a major cause of global morbidity, disability, and mortality. Although substantial gains have been made in public health interventions for the treatment, prevention, and control of infectious diseases during the last century, in recent decades the world has witnessed a worldwide human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) pandemic, increasing antimicrobial resistance, and the emergence of many new bacterial, fungal, parasitic, and viral pathogens. The economic, social, and political burden of infectious diseases is most evident in developing countries which must confront the dual burden of death and disability due to infectious and chronic illnesses.

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Que un organismo externo (un virus alienígena, un hongo mutado o un ser extraño) controle el cuerpo y la voluntad de los seres humanos, vivos o muertos, es uno de los temas más recurrentes en la ciencia ficción. Nos aterra que pueda existir un parásito con capacidad de aniquilar nuestro control corporal o modificar nuestras acciones. Por suerte, esto solo pasa en la ficción: Alien, The Last of Us o The Strain simplemente son productos audiovisuales, no parece que lo que cuentan sea posible que se dé en la realidad. O sí? De hecho, sí que es posible: los parásitos reales manipulan el comportamiento de muchas especies animales, como hormigas, pájaros, peces, gatos, hienas..., y también de los humanos. En este libro se explica, de una manera amena y comprensible, cómo los parásitos actúan sobre los animales y los humanos, y también cómo y por qué pueden llegar a convertir a un ser vivo funcional en poco más que un esclavo 3

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Dramatic, detailed, and romantic.' Megan Bradbury, author of Everyone is Watching.2010. The end of the world has begun, but no one is paying attention. People are unaware of the breaking pandemic, code name, The Epilogue Event.Accidentally finding himself at centre stage, an unlikely and unwilling hero Peter Finch, must, if he is to survive, awaken powers he has been trying to forget for over thirty years. And time is not on his side. A mysterious Artificial Intelligence, the cause of the plague, is slowly gaining control over everyone Peter loves and everything he values.On the streets of West London, the most powerful slave of a New Order, Dr Gordon Langley, is projecting a terrifying message. Unless Peter, aided by a band of misfits and criminals, can confront Langley, and his accomplices at a research facility near Norwich, and discover the meaning of the virus and reverse it, their world will be overcome and those permitted to surv

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This compilation opens with a discussion of tuberculosis, the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent. Widespread occurrence of drug-resistant tuberculosis and multidrug-resistant- tuberculosis poses a serious threat to global control efforts. The authors review the importance of sleep for healthy functioning, the role sleep plays in eating patterns and diet, and how this may relate to weight gain and obesity. Diabetic cardiomyopathy, one of the major complications of type 2 diabetes mellitus, is studied. This condition is characterized by structural and functional changes in the myocardium in absence of coronary artery disease, other cardiac pathologies or hypertension. This compilation goes on to propose that body composition could serve as a pre-screening tool and a safe, injury-free indicator of changes in the physical fitness of police officers. The closing study assesses whether economic damage from excessive restrictions due to COVID-19 might eventually result in more harm to public health than the virus itself.

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This book contains comprehensive and up-to-date reviews of multidrug resistance mechanisms. The book intends to provide a state-of-the-art collection of reviews and methods for both basic and clinician investigators who are interested in multidrug resistance mechanisms and reversal strategies. We believe that this information will be of value to clinicians, epidemiologists, microbiologists, virologists, parasitologists, public health authorities, medical students, and fellows in training. Each chapter begins with a summary of the concepts, so that those not actively working in the field can readily gain an overall picture of what follows. The book contains 13 chapters which deal with the antibiotic resistance mechanism in bacteria, fungus, virus and also methicillin resistance S.aureus. The book also explains the futuristic strategy to deal with the antibiotic resistance. We have endeavoured to provide this information in a style that is accessible to the broad community of persons who are concerned with the impact of drug resistance in our clinics and across broader global communities.

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Virtually all cervical cancer cases are caused by human papilloma viruses (HPV), mainly HPV-16 and HPV-18. Furthermore, HPVs may cause other types of cancer, such as squamous anal cancers and vulvar cancer. In men, HPVs are associated with genital lesions, anal cancer, penile cancer, and head and neck cancers. As such, this compilation focuses on recent findings in HPV epidemiology, prevention, and updates regarding prophylatic HPV vaccines. Bioinformatics tool are important in the analysis of molecular and biological data, which could provide novel insights on the development of treatment and prevention methods for disease control. Through bioinformatics, it is possible to analyze and simulate HPV molecular data through the use of universal databases and analysis tools, in order to better understand the virus genetics and infection cycle. In conclusion, Human Papillomaviruses (HPVs): Detection, Infection and Protection appraises HPV vaccines for the prophylaxis of HPV infection in healthy individuals. Vaccines used for earlier varieties are Gardasil (Merck, Kenilworth, NJ, U.S.A.) and Cervarix (GlaxoSmithKline, Brentford, U.K.).

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Celebrate 80 years of Marvel Comics, decade by decade - and see how Marvel''s mighty mutants dominated the Notorious Nineties! As the X-Men''s popularity exploded, the X-books were the place to be - and there sure were a lot of them! From Excalibur to the radically revised X-Factor, to two (count ''em, two) books for the X-Men alone! Generation X learned the ropes, while X-Force kicked butt! Wolverine searched for secrets of his past, Cable struggled with his destiny, X-Man explored our strange new world, and Deadpool began his rise to superstardom! But which ''90s nemesis would prove most deadly - the Legacy virus, or the mansion''s latest inhabitant... Sabretooth?! Collecting: Excalibur (1988) 42, Wolverine (1988) 48, X-Factor (1986) 87, X-Men (1991) 27, Generation X (1994) 4, X-Man 5, Uncanny X-Men (1981) 328, X-Force (1991) 55, Deadpool (1997) 2, Cable (1993) 64

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Get ready for the “Hottest cold case in America!” This updated paperback contains the same content as the 2014 hard cover edition which has 25 additional pages of revelations added since the original 2007 paperback. These new pages include documents from the FBI, CIA, CDC, and NOPD, plus the actual crime scene photos from the 1964 murder of Dr. Mary Sherman. The bizarre death of this nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping exposÉ of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations. Following a trail of police reports, FBI files, cancer statistics, and medical journals, this revealing book presents a web of secret-keeping which swept doctors into cover-ups of contaminated polio vaccines, cancer outbreaks, the arrival of the AIDS virus, and a deadly biological weapon tested on both monkeys and humans. Add Lee Harvey Oswald to the cast of this secret bio-weapon project, and this dark tale connects Oswald’s summer of secrets to the intrigue surrounding the assassination of President Kennedy.

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Este texto aborda con determinación y con rigor documental no exento de una saludable pasión un tema de suyo polémico y controvertido. Se refiere exclusivamente a los catalanes que aspiran a separarse de España. Aspiración cuya legitimidad el autor no cuestiona, para centrarse más en concreto en aquellos que se sirven ilegítimamente de toda clase de artimañas políticas y jurídicas para justificarla. La deriva secesionista está trufada de una evidente manipulación histórica, de mentiras, calumnias e incluso insultos y menosprecios a quienes cuestionan sus métodos. Esta caracterización excluye a la inmensa mayoría de catalanes, por mucho que no sean pocos los seguidores de un camino sin salida dadas las escasas posibilidades de alcanzar un día una mayoría social suficientemente cualificada como para poder hacerlo legítima y legalmente.Una obra que irritará a unos y satisfará a otros pues, la pretendida unanimidad, sólo se alcanza en las dictaduras y entre aquellos a los que el virus

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Son ciencia y religión incompatibles y opuestas? Ha perseguido la Iglesia a los científicos? Murió Galileo en la hoguera condenado por la Inquisición? Han condenado los papas la teoría de la evolución? Son la mayoría de los científicos materialistas y ateos? Muchas afirmaciones negativas sobre la relación entre ciencia y religión se siguen repitiendo hoy, a veces con enconada virulencia, y algunos ven en la religión un virus maligno que se opone al progreso de la ciencia. El tema necesita de una reflexión seria y serena que examine la relación entre ciencia y religión como formas de conocimiento y como fenómenos sociales, y cuáles han sido estas conexiones a lo largo de la historia, en especial en relación con el cristianismo. El origen del universo es hoy un tema científico candente. Por otro lado, la tradición religiosa judeo-cristiana afirma que el universo ha sido creado por Dios. Podemos compaginar ambas cosas? El famoso físico Stephen Hawking afirma que, si el universo es autocon

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Bienvenidos a La verdad de la pandemia. Este libro contiene las claves que explican cómo y por qué unos pocos han decidido robarnos la libertad. Por qué una pandemia en este momento? Quién tiene interés en secuestrarnos en nuestras casas? Es verdad que el virus viene de China o ha sido un ataque de Estados Unidos que ahora no sabe parar? Todas estas preguntas se han quedado sin respuesta, aunque algunas teorías han comenzado a circular. Ya en 2010, en mi libro Los amos del mundo están al acecho, advertí de que uno de los últimos mecanismos de control de las élites era la táctica de la pandemia. Por eso, cuando en los medios de comunicación empezaron a hablar de la COVID-19, supe que habían vuelto a activar el plan. Cómo obligarnos, si no, a aceptar una situación que nadie está dispuesto a consentir?El libro que no quieren que leas. Vas a obedecer?

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Hablar de la Tierra es tener siempre presente la interdependencia que la habita y que define lo vivo en todas y cada una de sus manifestaciones. Los seres humanos y los animales, los vegetales y los microbios, los virus y las sustancias minerales, así como las bacterias e, incluso, los dispositivos tecnológicos, forman parte del gran mosaico que es la vida en común en el planeta. Sin embargo, Mbembe va más allá y acude al ancestral pensamiento animista africano para incluir todas las fuerzas invisibles que los rodean y con las que también convivimos. La insondable riqueza de estas tradiciones le sirve como pie de apoyo para aventurar lo que, en vistas a un desastre ecológico inminente, parece más urgente: una nueva forma de relacionarnos con lo que nos rodea.La comunidad terrestre representa la culminación de la trilogía empezada por Políticas de la enemistad, también publicada en Ned, en la que el autor arriesga una comprensión de las principales fuerzas de transformación de la Ti

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La realidad se ha roto.Al principio parece un virus. Una epidemia que se extiende de forma incontrolable, enloqueciendo a sus víctimas con recuerdos de una vida que no es la suya. Pero no se trata de un patógeno y las consecuencias no afectan sólo a la mente, sino al propio tejido del tiempo.En Nueva York, el detective Barry Sutton está investigando este extraño síndrome en un caso que pronto se entrelaza con el trabajo de una brillante neurocientífica convencida de que es la memoria lo que determina la realidad. Pero cómo pueden dos personas investigar el origen de unos recuerdos falsos cuando a su alrededor toda la realidad se está desfragmentando?Recursión es la nueva novela del autor superventas de Materia oscura. Ha resultado ganadora en los Premios de Goodreads 2019 a Mejor Libro de Ciencia Ficción, se va a publicar en una veintena de idiomas y Netflix está preparando su adaptación televisiva.

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Después de una terrible pandemia, la sociedad queda dividida en dos.Budismo zen, pandemias, ciencia ficción y vampiros en el mejor teatro contemporáneo japonés.A principios del siglo XXI, una virulenta epidemia provocada por el bioterrorismo ha dividido al mundo en dos comunidades: la de los nox, seres de la noche, eternamente jóvenes, inteligentes, fuertes y sanos; y la de los curios, aquellas personas que sobrevivieron a la pandemia, pero que siguen siendo vulnerables al virus, y que ahora viven en guetos.En una de estas aldeas aisladas hace años asesinaron a un nox y, desde entonces, sus habitantes han sufrido un embargo que por fin va a concluir. Lamentablemente, con el restablecimiento de las relaciones entre nox y curios, regresan los prejuicios y los viejos rencores.Tomohiro Maekawa ha sido galardonado con un gran número de premios, tales como el Premio Yomiuri o el Kinokuniya y algunas de sus historias han llegado a la gran pantalla.Maekawa demuestra su prof

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La mejor novela que leí en 2014. Un libro que recordaré durante mucho tiempo y que volveré a leer?. George R. R. Martin, autor de "Juego de tronos".Un inesperado virus mortal acaba con la humanidad tal y como la conocemos: ya no quedan trenes ni Internet, ni siquiera ciudades, solamente asentamientos hostiles al visitante ocasional.En este desolador panorama un pequeño grupo de actores y músicos decide crear la Sinfonía Viajera, con el fin de mantener vivo un resquicio de humanidad. Pero en este libro nada es fácil y pronto este rescoldo de civilización también se verá amenazado por un violento profeta.Esta novela va más allá de su argumento y escritura, originales y ambiciosos: nos sumerge en un mundo distinto y nos obliga a reflexionar sobre el presente, sobre lo que tenemos y qué valor le damos. En definitiva, un homenaje inteligente y sobrio a los pequeños placeres de la vida. Un libro difícil de dejar y, más aún, de olvidar.

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El desarrollo de un fármaco es un proceso largo y costoso: su comercialización puede tardar entre 10 y 15 años, cuesta aproximadamente 2.500 millones de euros y su tasa de éxito, dejando en el camino decenas de miles de compuestos, ronda el 12%. Además, garantizar la eficacia y seguridad de un fármaco requiere de ensayos con animales y estudios en seres humanos, con importantes implicaciones éticas en la investigación biosanitaria. Este libro explica las principales estrategias que ha llevado a cabo la industria farmacéutica para tratar de abaratar y acelerar la producción de nuevos medicamentos: el reposicionamiento, que busca dar un nuevo uso terapéutico a un fármaco ya conocido, y la reformulación, que desarrolla nuevas formulaciones para un mismo medicamento. Sus autoras analizan sus casos de éxito y sus inconvenientes, y la aplicación de dichas estrategias en los campos con más impacto y utilidad: las enfermedades raras y las pandemias causadas por virus emergentes.

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Charb, el director de Charlie Hebdo, Sebastián Castellio, Carlos V, Georges Clemenceau, Louise Michel, Nadiezhda y Ósip Mandelstam, los héroes de la democracia española (Suárez, Carrillo, Gutiérrez Mellado, Juan Carlos I), André Malraux, Charles de Gaulle, Winston Churchill, Albert Camus, las 343 mujeres que lucharon por el derecho al aborto en Francia, Willy Brandt, Jean Moulin y Zelenski... A través de los destinos admirables de todos estos hombres y mujeres, Manuel Valls, apasionado de Historia y Literatura, nos ofrece una profunda reflexión sobre el valor en la vida pública y nos anima a rechazar la tentación de la resignación en un momento en que los valores europeos se ven amenazados por la polarización, el fanatismo, la violencia ciega y el terrorismo.Como dice Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo en su prólogo: Valls es un apasionado de la Historia. Pero, además, tiene la lucidez y visión necesarias para detectar en el presente los virus del pasado. Valls recoge el testigo de los inte

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The Woke are killing comedy—and that makes being a comedian today better than ever!The Woke—that humorless, joyless, shame-inducing virus—are killing comedy…and that is great for comedians! So argues award-winning comedian Lou Perez in his hilarious and provocative book debut, That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore. Through the lens of comedy, Lou examines anti-racism, sex, gender, cancel culture, and all the modern-day sacred cows that have been propped up in recent years. An equal-opportunity offender, nothing is safe from his mockery. Lou punches up, he punches down—he’s throwing haymakers in every direction! This book is a cancellable offense—but worth the risk. It’s time to fight back: to create, to celebrate, and most importantly, to laugh. These are amazing times, in no small part thanks to the Woke gift to comedy. Plus, reading That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore will take care of your diversity reading quota. Lou has the results from his DNA test to prove it.

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At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research and now revised to reflect the growing danger of the avian flu, "The Great Influenza" is ultimately a tale of triumph amid tragedy, which provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon. John M Barry has written a new afterword for this edition that brings us up to speed on the terrible threat of the avian flu and suggests ways in which we might head off another flu pandemic.

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Dieses Einsteiger-Lehrbuch bietet eine hochaktuelle, aber auch alltagstaugliche Gesamtschau der Bioanalytik. Drogen- und Virus-Tests, die Blutzucker-Bestimmung bei Diabetes, die Messung der körperlichen Fitness, Schwangerschaft und der lebensrettende Check eines Herzinfarkts sind einige der spannenden und lebensnahen Aspekte, die mit einer Vielzahl an vierfarbigen Grafiken und Fotos beschrieben werden. Wie das mit bereits fünf Auflagen erfolgreiche Werk des Autors Biotechnologie für Einsteiger soll auch dieses Buch zeigen: „Wissenschaft kann Spaß machen!" und die Neugier auf mehr wecken – und das schon alleine beim Durchblättern. Die abwechslungsreiche Gestaltung des Buches bietet neben Meinungen von Experten, die Standpunkte aus Forschung und Industrie veranschaulichen, auch geschichtliche Aspekte sowie die beliebte Nanoru-Cartoon-Geschichte, die, wie gewohnt, witzig in die Thematik einführt. Acht Fragen am Ende jedes Kapitels helfen bei der Selbstkontrolle von Lernbegierigen.Die zweite Auflage wurde gänzlich überarbeitet und – buchstäblich bis zur letzten Minute vor dem Druck – u.a. mit dem erläuterten Nachweis von Coronaviren auf den aktuellsten Stand gebracht.

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A powerful memoir from the Saturday Night Live cast member Cecily Strong about grieving the death of her cousin—and embracing the life-affirming lessons he taught her—amid the coronavirus pandemic.Cecily Strong had a special bond with her cousin Owen. And so she was devastated when, in early 2020, he passed away at age thirty from the brain cancer glioblastoma. Before Strong could attempt to process her grief, another tragedy struck: the coronavirus pandemic. Following a few harrowing weeks in the virus epicenter of New York City, Strong relocated to an isolated house in the woods upstate. Here, trying to make sense of Owen’s death and the upended world, she spent much of the ensuing months writing. The result is This Will All Be Over Soon—a raw, unflinching memoir about loss, love, laughter, and hope. Befitting the time-warped year of 2020, the diary-like approach deftly weaves together the present and the past. Strong chron

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